IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2016

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Mattress Men

Director Colm Quinn, Paul Kelly and Michael Flynn (Mattress Mick), will participate in a post-screening Q&A . In an attempt to save his struggling mattress business, sixty-something Michael Flynn reinvents himself…

Thursday 22nd Sep 2016 20.00

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Cameraperson

One of the most notable cinematographers working in documentary today, Kirsten Johnson has shot films of the calibre of Fahrenheit 9/11, Citizenfour and The Invisible War; using outtakes and unused…

Friday 23rd Sep 2016 18.20

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Lo and Behold: Reveries of The Connected World

*This event has sold out* Tickets still available for the live satellite Q&A with Werner Herzog following a screening of this film on October 13th at 18.00. Tickets for this…

Friday 23rd Sep 2016 20.45

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Shorts Programme

This year’s short film programme captures the pulse of the traditional documentary scene, drawing on new shorts from filmmakers living in Ireland. Portraiture is quite possibly the most popular and accessible…

Saturday 24th Sep 2016 12.00

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble

An eclectic group of gifted musicians from across the globe, The Silk Road Ensemble are in many respects the crowning achievement in the career of world-beating Chinese-American cellist Yo Yo…

Saturday 24th Sep 2016 16.30

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?

Saar Moaz is an affable forty-year-old gay Israeli man living in London who sings regularly in the Gay Men’s Chorus; he’s also living with the burden of being HIV+ and…

Saturday 24th Sep 2016 18.40

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Blindboy presents The Rocky Road to Dublin

There will be a post-screening discussion by filmmaker Paul Duane and Rubberbandits’ Blindboy Boatclub who says the film “is like your Uncle’s old diary that you find in the attic, that…

Saturday 24th Sep 2016 20.30

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: How To Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story

Journalist Susan McKay will host a Q&A with director Des Henderson and producer Ed Stobart following the screening. In 1975 Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad –…

Sunday 25th Sep 2016 13.30

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Life, Animated

A profoundly autistic boy learns to communicate through reciting memorised dialogue from Disney films in Roger Ross William’s inspirational case history. By the age of three Owen Suskind had withdrawn…

Sunday 25th Sep 2016 15.50

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Tower

On 1st August 1966 engineering student Charles Whitman ascended the main building observation tower in the University of Texas at Austin with a small arsenal in tow and proceeded to…

Sunday 25th Sep 2016 16.10

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: A Family Affair

A family portrait that doubles as investigation, director Tom Fassaert’s film is an attempt to untangled his family’s troubled history with its matriarch Marianne Hertz, an impeccably dressed ninety-five-year-old whose…

Sunday 25th Sep 2016 18.00

IFI Documentary Festival 2016: The Lovers and The Despot

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Ross Adam and Robert Cannan. The history of Hollywood is replete with bizarre tales, but for sheer strangeness few can…

Sunday 25th Sep 2016 20.20